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in title, tags, annotations or urlMedieval Foods - 0 views
The Swiss Guard - History - 0 views
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Medieval Health - 0 views
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Health was controlled by the stars, and affliction was a sign of impurity of the soul-a curse from God.
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Disease was a constant concern, as was infection from injuries
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Hygiene was not always a priority
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Holidays and Celebrations - 0 views
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were based on ancient agricultural celebrations that marked when certain crops should be planted or harvested.
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By November, feed was often too scarce to keep animals through the winter, and became known as the "blood month" when meat was smoked, salted and cured for consumption during the long winter ahead. The month began with All Hallows (later, All Saints) Day, followed by St. Martin's Day (November 11).
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Easter, as Christmas, was a day for exchanging gifts. The castle lord would receive eggs from the villagers and in return, provide servants with dinner.
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Of Monks, Medieval Scribes, and Middlemen - 0 views
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: In the early Middle Ages, the Church played a very important role in protecting ancient works, and monks were heavily involved in the “reproduction and preservation of the literature that had been inherited from earlier writers,—writers whose works had been accepted as classics.”
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The monks who were not yet competent to work as scribes were to be instructed by the others.”
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The copying of books was also slow, tedious, and very time-consuming; it took years for a scribe to complete “a particularly fine manuscript with colored initials and miniature art work.”
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Medieval Clothing, Renaissance Clothing, Period Clothing and Medieval Fair Clothing by Medieval Collectibles - 0 views
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Medieval & Renaissance Shirts
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Pants, Breeches and Hosen
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Cloaks, Capes and Robes
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The Medieval Church - 0 views
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very rich and powerful
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organized like a government with laws
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job of praying for everyone else.
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Children of the Middle Ages - 0 views
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Children of peasants often had to begin helping their parents when they were as young as seven or eight years old
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Many of the boys had to become pages and were set away as young as age 7 to wait on the lords and ladies of another noble family
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boys who were born to lords learned to fight when they were very young, became squires at 14, and became knights at 21.
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Inside a Medieval Castle - 1 views
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The rooms where the lord of a castle, his family and his knights lived and ate and slept were in the Keep (called the Donjon), the rectangular tower inside the walls of a castle. This was meant to be the strongest and safest place.
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The outer wall of a castle was called Bailey. This was where buildings for the castle's cattle, horses and servants lived. Some of the soldiers needed to defend the castle might live in part of the gatehouse known as the Barbican.
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Historical Essays: Childhood in Medieval England - 0 views
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toy knight
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made in the mudbanks of the River
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they had a culture of their own, encompassing slang, toys, and games
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a youth being trained for the medieval rank of knight and in the personal service of a knight
Medieval Weapons - 1 views
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